Nurturing the roots of holistic wellbeing
Rather than focus on project-based outputs or services, we seek to invest in the holistic wellbeing of people living in vulnerable communities around the world.
Through our grantmaking, we prioritize community-led initiatives that seek to heal people’s connections to God, self, others, and creation. As communities embrace new mindsets about their own identity and purpose, and learn to steward resources in more innovative ways, new paths unfold.
We believe if you heal the spirit of a people, they will lead themselves
We believe that it is not simply lack of access to such things as education, healthcare and job creation that keeps communities from flourishing, but a much deeper brokenness of spirit evidenced by lack of voice, purpose, meaningful relationships, agency and connection. (See Theory of Change)
Choosing our Grant Partners
When exploring new partnerships, we use the following criteria in our evaluation process.
We focus on 4 geographic areas – Mexico, Haiti, Northern India, and East Africa – prioritizing community-based organizations in specific regions of each country that can be connected and learn from each other.
Our support goes beyond funding. We seek to be mutual partners, creating opportunities for networking and collaboration across regions.
We seek partners who share our values and approach to living and working in community.
We are place-based, prioritizing rural communities; we are faith-inspired, responding to God's call to service and justice; and we are healing-centered, prioritizing grassroots initiatives that promote healing and reconcilation.
If your organization meets all of our partner requirements and would be interested in future funding, please fill out our inquiry form.
Our Global Partners
Our current grantees work in one or more of the following areas of community development.
Stories
Changing Mindsets and Livelihoods in India
Inderpaul is a cotton farmer in the Vidarbha region of India. Due to poor weather conditions, he fell into heavy…
Combatting Gender-Based Violence in Latin America
In 2018, VHF hosted our first international grant partner retreat in Mexico City. Forty people from 15 organizations attended. Following…
We For Others: Mindset Change in India
When I (Joseph) joined Vista Hermosa Foundation as a Program Officer to steward relationships with partners in East Africa and…
Changing Mindsets and Livelihoods in India
Combatting Gender-Based Violence in Latin America
We For Others: Mindset Change in India
Lament
In his book God and the Pandemic, Tom Wright says the initial calling of the church is to take our place among those who mourn. We are to start there—often with those in tears, who feel locked away from love and/or hope, just like Jesus’ disciples felt in the immediate days after he was killed….
Life-giving Love
Given the invitation to write on the theme of ‘love,’ Kupenda for the Children came to mind. Based in Kilifi, Kenya, Kupenda equips children with disabilities to achieve their God-given potential by working with families and faith-leaders to transform harmful beliefs about disabilities. Kupenda is also a Vista Hermosa Foundation grant partner. When we sat…
Part of My Story
by Maria Vargas Maria works as a medical assistant in the Yakima Valley. She read Shaunee’s story in February and was inspired to share her story! She has never shared her story before. My story starts with a mother of five children living in poverty in a small village in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico….
Spirit-Building in a Building
Look to the sky above our Tierra Vida community and you may have seen the Broetje Family Trust building under construction. The building is raising the skyline of Tierra Vida and offering hope and excitement for new opportunities to be together in a new space. The space will host a number of Broetje Family Trust initiatives,…
Cultivating Safe Places to Share
On January 7th, as Mrs. Larie Beck headed into Nueva Esperanza Leadership Academy (NELA), she was faced with the dilemma of how to talk to her students about what had unfolded at the capital the day prior.
The World Needs a New Story
In 2021, Broetje Family Trust wants to deepen our practice of collecting stories from the communities we serve. Not just as Homo sapiens — “humans as those who know” — but as Homo narrators — “humans as storytellers.” I’m reading a book called The Seventh Story, an adult fable by Gareth Higgins and Brian McLaren….
Unprecedented Grantmaking
For over 30 years, Vista Hermosa Foundation has partnered with many inspiring organizations around the world. Leaning into our mission to serve “children and the under-served,” we have reached into some of the hardest and most overlooked places – communities torn apart by conflict, violence, poverty, and dependence – to nurture healing and a new…
What Does It look Like When a Healthy Community Responds to a Pandemic?
As we enter 2021 in the midst of the ongoing global pandemic, Vista Hermosa Foundation partners continue to share inspiring stories of community resilience. While each partner responded differently, in every instance the crisis served as a trial for the holistic community-led development practiced long before March 2020.
Creating Connection
What an unexpected year 2020 was! While no one would likely choose to repeat it, the year wasn’t all bad though. Reflecting over the past 12 months, we’ve found moments that affirmed the importance of our combatting disconnection — between individuals and a community. Jordan Chaney provided one of these moments. Jordan moved from Tierra…
Giving Together
We want to thank you for joining us on this journey. We hope you have been inspired by these stories of what God is doing through Center For Sharing. As we look around our world today, we see that the alienation, disconnection, and trauma that people face is growing. We are committed to nurturing more servant leaders, more warriors for the human spirit who will go out and…